Ronald Reagan Quotes

The purpose of our common defense, after all, is to protect our people so that we can enjoy the blessings of peace, faith, freedom, family, prosperity.

Read about some squirrelly guy who claims that he just don't believe in fighting, and I wonder how long the rest of us can count on being free.

While we shall never weary in the defense of freedom, neither shall we ever abandon the pursuit of peace.

I think it's in the hands of each head of state: the future of peace in his own country.

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.

Iraq will not allow any action on its soil that could harm the U.S. We don't want any action from our soil to target our neighbors.

All members will refrain in their international relations from the threat or the use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state.

The French nation, content to be free, does not wish to engage herself in any war and wishes to live with all peoples in that brotherhood ordained by nature.

Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation. Bella suscipienda sunt ob eam causam, ut sine injuria in pace vivatur.

Security and peace are not cheap.

In vain do they worship peace at home, who cannot defend themselves against foreigners.

We must begin by acknowledging the hard truth: We will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes. There will be times when nations—acting individually or in concert—will find the use of force not only necessary but morally justified.

Our security and sovereignty stand together.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. And now, as in no other age, we seek it because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.

Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.

The cause of Freedom and the cause of Peace are bound together.

When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries is in danger.

Without freedom you cannot have real peace.

A nation has the right to defend itself, but when it comes to the broader issue of peace and security, the legitimacy rests only with the Security Council.

Arms alone are not enough to keep the peace. It must be kept by men.

We are not seeking... and looking for war with any nations. We are seeking peace and stability among all the nations in the region.

We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.